Transmission

aluminum  
H 66.5" x W 116" x D 20"
2025

Transmission can refer to any sort of transmitted communication between two or more entities.

The piece began 25 years ago with the serendipitous find of 2 identical cast-alloy automotive transmission bell housings in a junk yard. Matching bolt patterns allowed them to be fastened together face to face to create a single hollow unit. 

It wasn't until the onset of the covid pandemic that the literal idea of transmitted disease gave the impulse to contextualize the work in a way that was more general than that straightforward descriptor. Many trial and error attempts to produce a convincing imagistic relation for the work were not successful; about that time, in another junkyard, I found a pair of knock-off aluminum side-chairs, modelled on the hugely popular Emeco US Navy 1006 chair.